Fête de la Chanson 8: Preliminary Info & Dates

Olá! Hopefully you’ve had a restful summer and are ready for some serious song contest action, because Fête de la Chanson is coming back! I hope you appreciate the new visual identity that the contest has received.😉 That will extend to the recaps, so here’s a preview of what’s in store.

Thanks to Shevek, Brazil won with “Freguês da meia-noite” by Criolo and will be hosting the 8th edition! Please send in the information for the next edition like host city, hosts, venue, etc. asap. Now for dates, I have this schedule tightly coordinated with my personal schedule, so it can’t really move.

5 September: Reservations open

7 September: Submissions open

17 September: Submissions close, voting opens

28-30 September: Voting closes, results are posted

Now a lot of interest has been shown by some ETSC players, and we might actually move to semis! Should that happen, countries will be randomly drawn into each semi, except for whichever country Shevek has picked. The schedule would be slightly modified:

28 September: Semi voting closes, results are posted

29 September: Grand final voting opens

9-10 October: Grand final results posted

Be sure to check out the rules as some of them have been slightly edited. The most drastic change is that FdlC will permanently be a world-based contest! So our special editions will have to change a bit. Maybe an edition where each player picks for another? Or an edition where all songs have to be from a certain decade? Or something else? Time will tell, but for now, FdlC 8 will remain a normal edition.

Oh, a quick note on the new organization of the site. If you want to check on old articles, go to that edition’s page in “History,” and click on the link at the bottom of the page called “Explore the rest of the edition!” I wanted to simplify the experience.

When i click on Home i just read go to the most recent article.In order to get to this thread(preliminary dates and infos) i have to click on my previous comments in order to find it.Is there another way to find all the recent articles and not just the most recent one?

Great news that its permanently worldwide now. Personally I won’t participate if their is semis. I fundamentally disagree with them, hope we don’t have this situation.

I have a question about the rules, it says “an artist must Have full citizenship (i.e., an artist’s parents being from the country does not let the artist participate in FdlC).” But often people inherit full citizenship from their parents. So would someone for example born in Trinidad and Tobago, to Trinidadian parents who had Trinadadian citizenship now finally be allowed to represent Trinidad, even if they moved to new york when they were a kid?

Hopefully you’ll be able to find the time (and that the format of the edition will be to your liking q: ). I start tomorrow!🙂
Nope, read the first sub-rule “The artist must have lived in their country for at least 10 years.” That artist would only be eligible for the United States.

Wait, so you have to send the entry when confirming? Then I guees I have to send another email haha😛, Im also kinda new to all of this, but like the idea of the whole world edition idea and the 10 max years, it gives this contest another touch then ETSC ^^

Reservation is done via email to fetedelachanson@gmx.com at 19:00 CET on the 5th of September. It’s done the ETSC way. You just send a list of 5 max countries you would like to participate with (Denmark and Mexico are already taken by administrator Nick and previous winner Shevek respectively)
From the 7th of September you will be able to submit the song from the country you managed to claim
I hope it’s clear.
Welcome!

I was reading your conversation with Max above and still wishing to clarify something… F.e an Ethiopian artist born and raised in France but who has never lived in Ethiopia is still not eligible for Ethiopia but only for France?